Carl Milles

Earlier in Baron Erik Palmstiernas collection.
The Minister, diplomat and Baron Erik Palmstierna was a close friend of Carl and Olga Milles and he received the sculpture as a gift from the couple in 1953. He took it with him to England were it was placed in his garden in Ewelme, near Oxford.

M. P. Verneuil, Carl Milles. Sculpteur Suédois, Bryssel 1929, compare ill. plate no 36.
Meyric R. Rogers, Carl Milles. An interpretation of his work, New Haven, USA, 1940, compare catalogue no 62, mentioned at p. 52, ill. at pl 31A and 31B;
Henrik Cornell, Carl Milles. Hans verk, SAK, 1963, compare ill. at p.123 and listed under his artwork 1925-26 at p. 254.
Gunila Klosterborg, Millesgården, Lidingö 1979, compare catalogue no 36.
Erik Näslund, Carl Milles – en biografi, Höganäs 1991, mentioned in the list of artwork at p. 335.
Göran Söderlund, Millesgården, Lidingö 1999, compare catalogue no 94.

Carl Milles was a Swedish sculptor born in Lägga. He studied at the Technical School in Stockholm, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Auguste Rodin and on study trips to Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. In Paris he came to stay for many years and made a living as an ornament carver. He studied the animals in the Jardin des Plantes (the Zoological Garden) and was strongly influenced by Auguste Rodin. Milles made a breakthrough with a monument to Sten Sture in Uppsala. He exhibited at the World's Fair in 1900 and was later given a solo exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London. Milles was professor of modeling at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm. Well-known sculptures in public places signed by Carl Milles are the "Gustav Vasa" statue at the Nordic Museum, "Orfeusgruppen" outside the concert hall in Stockholm and the "Poseidonfontänen" in Gothenburg.